{"id":216,"date":"2012-02-28T22:35:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T22:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2012-04-26T16:38:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T15:38:33","slug":"u-is-for-underwater-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"U is for Underwater Swimming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>U<\/strong>nderwater Swimming forms one of a long list of sports which has featured in the summer Olympics but at some point has been removed. \u00a0It\u00a0was introduced in the Paris 1900 Games. Competitors earned points for the length of time and distance they were underwater. Four nations and 14 swimmers competed but not surprisingly it lacked spectator appeal and it was dropped from later games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hogsbackbooks.com\/oisforolympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Holding-breath-rev04g.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-115\" title=\"Olympic underwater swimmer by Zack McLaughlin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hogsbackbooks.com\/oisforolympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Holding-breath-rev04g.png\" alt=\"Olympic underwater swimmer\" width=\"356\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hogsbackbooks.com\/oisforolympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Holding-breath-rev04g.png 356w, http:\/\/www.hogsbackbooks.com\/oisforolympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Holding-breath-rev04g-300x252.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underwater Swimming forms one of a long list of sports which has featured in the summer Olympics but at some point has been removed. \u00a0It\u00a0was introduced in the Paris 1900 Games. Competitors earned points for the length of time and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/?p=216\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oisforolympics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}